Natural Disaster Sweeps Across Asia

It’s a sobering thought amongst all the jovailty and celibrations that disaster can strike at any minute. Yesterday more than 14,000 people lost their lives (at the last estimate). It’s a sad time.

My condolences go out to all the families and people that lost loved and cherished ones.

Thanks to all those that enquired, I am fine here. There were tremors in KL, but they were minor, apparently one condo cracked. It happened around 9am yesterday morning, it was quite bad in Penang, according to Michael Ooi, bad enough to wake you up.

Lives were lost in 7 or more countries, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and as far as Somalia.

Hi ! I’m from KL originally but I now live in Sydney, so I’m quite lucky where I am. Would you consider linking to some Australian disaster relief funds who are asking for donations to support this relief effort ? I have linked to the 5 key agencies who have set up online donation forms for people to contribute. If you are interested, all the links are in my blog (URL above). Thanks and regards – Chris

There were no tremors in KL. Just some nasty Chinese businessman making up stories about why his condo fell down. “It was the earthquake, I swear!” Yeah, right. Another Highland Towers disaster? Pull the other one.